Il Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll è Managing Director dell’AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology ed uno dei più
importanti ricercatori a livello mondiale nel campo della Scienza dei Materiali, delle biointerfacce e delle
bionanotecnologie.
L’AIT è il più grande centro di ricerca non universitario dell’Austria.
I principali ambiti di ricerca in cui il Prof. Knoll è stato coinvolto fanno riferimento alle proprietà dei polimeri
e dei sistemi bioorganici a film sottile, alle superfici funzionalizzate ed alla biomimetica, dando maggiore
enfasi alle tecniche ottiche (plasmoni di superficie, ellissometria, ottica non lineare e spettroscopia
vibrazionale).
Il prof. Knoll è autore di più di 1000 articoli scientifici pubblicati su riviste internazionali (fattore h=83).
I principali passaggi della sua carriera sono stati:
 1973 Diploma - Physics, Technical University of Karlsruhe
 1976 Ph.D. - Biophysics, University of Konstanz
 1976-1977 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz
 1977-1980 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ulm
 1980-1981 Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA
 1981 Visiting Scientist, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
 1981-1986 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Munich
 1985 Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA
 1986 Postdoctoral Degree: "Habilitation" - Physics, Technical University of Munich
 1986-1991 Young Investigator/Associate Professor, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research,
Mainz
 1988 Visiting Scientist, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ
 1990 Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Chem. & Nuc. Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA
 1990-1991 Visiting Professor, University of Erlangen
 1991-1999 Head of Laboratory for Exotic Nano-Materials, Frontier Research Program, RIKENInstitute, Japan
 since 1992 Consulting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
 1993-2008 Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
 since 1998 Professor (by Courtesy) Chemistry Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
 since 1999 Adjunct Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
 1999-2003 Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore
 2004-2013 Visiting Principal Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
 since 2008 Scientific Managing Director, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wien
 since 2009 Honorary Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Wien
 since 2009 Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ha ricevuto le seguenti onorificenze:
 Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1986
 Merck Centennial Lecturer, University of Iowa, Ames, 1988
 Heinrich-Welker-Award, Siemens/Universität Erlangen, 1990
 Eugen-und-Ilse-Seibold Award of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2003
 Exner Medal, Österreichischer Gewerbeverein, 2008
 Regular Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010
 Honorary Doctorat, University of Twente, The Netherlands. 2011